{"id":12057,"date":"2016-12-05T21:07:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T20:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=12057"},"modified":"2016-12-08T11:47:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T10:47:31","slug":"portugal-finale-festival-da-cancao-op-5-maart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/landen\/pt\/portugal-finale-festival-da-cancao-op-5-maart\/","title":{"rendered":"final &#8216; Festival da Can\u00e7\u00e3o &#8216; on 5 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #D49D6E; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"post-p-lead\">Unfortunately this article is not available in English and has been automatically translated. Please visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/\">homepage<\/a> for all English content or get an overview of all English articles <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/english\">here<\/a>. You can also request a translation by sending us an <a href=\"mailto:info@songfestival.be\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Choose the Portuguese on Sunday 5 March their song for Kiev. That the broadcaster RTP has announced. The preliminary round is undergoing some major changes.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal returns after a year absence back to the Eurovision song contest. The local Song Contest <em>Festival da Can\u00e7\u00e3o<\/em>was founded in 1964, will be popped up, though the concept changed. On Sunday 19 and 26 February find <strong>two semifinals<\/strong> place, with eight candidates. A number of to be determined for the final on Sunday March 5. According to the RTP in the semifinals seven regional juries determine the outcome, and have the final say in the final to win the Portuguese viewers.<\/p>\n<p>A revolution in the preliminary round is that songs also in <strong>other languages<\/strong> than Portuguese may be submitted. Portugal is one of the few countries that traditionally have one entry in the national language to the Eurovision song contest, but that&#8217;s possible from next year sent over.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the candidates come until next month, but the RTP does have all the <strong>sixteen composers<\/strong> (photo) released those songs for <em>Festival da Can\u00e7\u00e3o<\/em> going to write. It comes to Lu\u00edsa Sobral, M\u00e1rcia, Rita Redshoes, David Santos, Celina da Piedade, Samuel \u00daria, Nuno Gon\u00e7alves, Pedro Silva Martins, T\u00f3li C\u00e9sar Machado, Jo\u00e3o Pedro Coimbra, Nuno Figueiredo, Pedro Saraiva, Nuno Feist, Jorge Fernando, Jo\u00e3o S\u00f3 H\u00e9ber and Marques. They also get full autonomy in searching for a suitable artist to play their songs.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese have the contest never can win. The <strong>sixth place<\/strong> from 1996 is still the best showing of the country as yet. In 2010, for the last spot in the final.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: RTP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sixteen composers are already known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2121,359],"tags":[1836,254,219,1214,86,19],"class_list":["post-12057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kiev-2017","category-pt","tag-1836","tag-eurosong","tag-eurovisiesongfestival","tag-festival-da-cancao","tag-portugal","tag-songfestival"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["nl","fr","en"],"languages":{"nl":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}